Space Weather and Human Exploration

Join Leila Mays, deputy director, and Elon Olsson, software lead, from the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, to explore the science of space weather. Tracking eruptions and radiation from the Sun to storms rippling throughout the Solar System, they will combine beautiful visualizations of computer simulations with cutting-edge observations to reveal the latest in space weather research - including how they forecast its effect on human space exploration.

Elon Olsson will be the program’s interactive “pilot,” immersing attendees in powerful solar storms in the OpenSpace visualization platform on the Morrison Planetarium dome.